Transnational Institute (TNI)

The Transnational Institute (TNI) was established in 1974 as an international network of activist researchers (“scholar activists”) committed to critical analyses of the global problems of today and tomorrow. It aims to provide intellectual support to movements struggling for a more democratic, equitable and environmentally sustainable world.

One video

• Webinar recording: Recipe for Disaster - Globalised food systems, inequality and COVID-19

  Transnational institute - April 15, 2020

  April 2020

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35 case studies

• Maison d’Éducation à l’Alimentation Durable fournit la communauté en aliments organiques et éduque les générations futures (Mouans-Sartoux, France)

  Transformative Cities - Atlas of Utopias

  La Maison d’Éducation à l’Alimentation Durable, 2020

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• La Corporación Penca de Sábila mejora las vidas de los productores y las productoras rurales y los pone en contacto con comunidades urbanas (Medellín, Colombia)

  Transformative Cities - Atlas of Utopias

  2020

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• CaSanAT es una microutopía que funciona como espacio de intercambio, aprendizaje y resistenci

  Transformative Cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Amigos da Terra Brasil, 2020

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• The municipality of Burgas pioneers energy efficient housing in Bulgaria

  Transformative Cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Burgas energy efficient housing, 2020

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• Agua Para Todos lucha contra la privatización del agua y el impacto del cambio climático (Petorca, Chile)

  Transformative Cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Unión de Agua Potable Rural de la Cuenca del Río Petorca, Chile, 2020

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• PENGON-FOE Palestine: Empowering Women as Sustainable Energy Leaders project

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  PENGON-FOE Palestine, 2019

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• Transition City Initiative (Jackson Just Transition Plan)

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Cooperation Jackson, 2019

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• Cargonomia Community Cargobike and Local Food Distribution Center
Cargonomia


  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Cargonomia, 2019

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• Barcelona Energia

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Barcelona en Comú, 2019

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• Jakarta’s movement against water privatization in Jakarta

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Amrta Institute for Water Literacy, 2019

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• The Lagos ‘Our Water Our Right’ Campaign

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Environmental Rights Action (ERA) – Friends of the Earth Nigeria, 2019

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• Social Kitchen ‘The Other Human’

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Social Kitchen ‘The Other Human’, 2018

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• Porto di Mare Ecodistrict via IMM methodology

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  IMMdesignlab, 2018

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• Self-managing farm in Elliniko, Athens

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  2018

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• Intensifying urban food production with agroecology

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Grand River Food Forestry, 2018

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• Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  2018

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• ColyFlor Solidarity Economy Circuit, Medellín

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Corporación Ecológica y Cultural Penca de Sábila, 2018

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• Claiming land tenure security for Nagpur’s slum residents

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA) and Shehar Vikas Manch (SVM), 2018

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• Cities for Agroecology Network

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Organization Red de Ciudades por la Agroecología, 2018

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• No-Middlemen Cooperative of Galatsi

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  No-Middlemen Cooperative of Galatsi, 2018

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• Struggle for the Survival of Dakar’s Last Remaining Green Lung

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Asssociation Des Maraichers de la Patte d’Oie, 2018

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• China CSA Network

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  China CSA Network, 2018

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• Securing land rights and security of tenure post Land Reform in Zimbabwe

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  2018

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• Cloughjordan Ecovillage

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  2018

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• Education and Sustainable Food Centre (Mouans-Sartoux)

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Town of Mouans-Sartoux town (a public collective), 2018

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• Community Led Response to the 2017 Flooding in Peru

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  TECHO Perú, 2018

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• Kudumbashree Collective Farming and related initiatives

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Society for Knowledge Commons, 2018

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• Cherán K’eri: To defend the territory is to defend the life that is found there

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Radio Fogata Cherán (indigenous community of Cherán, Michoacán), 2018

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• Circular Buiksloterham

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Metabolic, The Netherlands, 2018

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• Popular Urbanism Workshop (Atelier Populaire D’Urbanisme APU)

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  2018

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• Waste Management Innovations for Food Security, Climate Change Mitigation and Clean Habitat

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Dajopen Waste Management, 2018

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• Campaign for housing, community organising and hope
 (MTST)

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto (MTST), 2018

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• Earthworker Cooperative

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Earthworker Cooperative, 2018

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• Leuven 2030

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Leuven 2030, 2018

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• GOIENER TALDEA – Empowering citizens through energy

  Goiener S Coop, 2018

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4 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Policy Report : Roots of Resilience.. Land Policy for an Agroecological Transition in Europe.

  Nyéléni, January 2021

  Urgenci, TNI

• Your Land, My Land, Our Land

  A TNI report

  Nyeleni Europe and Central Asia, Transnational Institute (TNI), May 2020

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• The Future is Public Towards Democratic Ownership of Public Services

  A TNI Publication

  Satoko Kishimoto, Lavinia Steinfort, Nara Petrovic, May 2020

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• Public Finance for the Future We Want

  AA.VV., June 2019

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One public contribution

• World Social Forum I: A Short History of Neo-liberalism: Twenty Years of Elite Economics and Emerging Opportunities for Structural Change

  Presentation prepared for the World Social Forum I, Porto Alegre, 2001

  Susan George, February 2001

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